PHY 320 — ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM I (CUR-427)
Summary 🔴 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Physics and Astrophysics
- College/School: College of Science and Health
- Curriculum section: Physics and Astrophysics
- Catalog: PHY 320
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: red (
Major Required) - Rationale: 300- and 400-level physics courses require enrollment in the Physics and Astrophysics major.
- Prerequisites:
- PHY 301 is a prerequisite
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/phy
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
Solutions to electrostatic, magnetostatics, and boundary-value problems. Introduction to Coulumb's law, Gauss's law, Biot-Savart law, and electric and magnetic potentials. PHY 301 is a prerequisite for this course.
Hardware relevance
Catalog course linked to map themes/programs: robotics_bs, intelligent_systems_engineering_bs.
Documented resource links
CDM-015
- Relationship: uses_program
- Rationale: Robotics B.S. program crosswalk; CDM documents robotics and physical-computing engineering pathways. Intelligent Systems Engineering B.S. program crosswalk; CDM engineering programs page documents ISE labs and The Forge.
- Source URLs:
- catalog.depaul.edu/programs/robotics-bs
- www.depaul.edu/academics/programs/bs-in-intelligent-systems-engineering
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/phy
- catalog.depaul.edu/programs/intelligent-systems-engineering-bs
- Resource page: CDM-015
Notes
Catalog course key: PHY 320.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000366←depaul/SRC-001093(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence- Program tags: robotics_bs, intelligent_systems_engineering_bs
- Schedule (capture): 2026-2027 Autumn — TBA
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-PHY-320.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-PHY-320.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.